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He/him. Interested in tech privacy, security, Daoism, Buddhism, progressive politics, history, baseball, genealogy, space, stuff, and things. Former Stephentown Democratic Committee Chair. Former Vice Chair Rensselaer County Democratic Committee. Former President Democracy for the Hudson-Mohawk Region.

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Nonilex , to random
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has officially registered as an


https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/joe-manchin-leaves-democratic-party-independent

acwhite ,
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@Nonilex Bye bye

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.

acwhite ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot It's a very good book. Highly recommend reading it.

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Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s ’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

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@Npars01 @GottaLaff

Sadly, so far, they have gotten away with it. This has been going on my entire adult life as the graph shows. It started slowly in the 70's but took off with Reagan and hasn't stopped. The fascism is the result of their out of control greed.

It won't last. It's not sustainable. How it ends remains to be seen though.

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Lawrence O’Donnell:

“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald , but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-you-get-monsters-like-donald-trump-thanks-to-people-like-hope-hicks-210249285691

acwhite ,
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@GottaLaff And George Bush and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay and Pat Buchanon and Roger Stone and Ronald Reagan and Pat Falwell and Grover Norquist and... the list goes on.

Donald Trump is the symptom not the disease.

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"The data journalists were convinced the uncommitted vote was not terribly significant, while the storytellers saw it as nearly earth-shattering."

Count me somewhere in the middle but leaning towards the data people.

The uncommitted vote in the Democratic primary was significant enough to measure a very real protest. BUT Biden still walked away with 80% of the vote which is an overwhelming win.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/4510454-mellman-what-really-happened-in-michigan/

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